"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
-Saint Francis de Sales
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"Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.“
-Saint Francis de Sales
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength."
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"Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself."
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"Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs."
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"A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship."
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"Those who love to be feared fear to be loved."
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"On Memorial Day, I don't want to only remember the combatants. There were also those who came out of the trenches as writers and poets, who started preaching peace, men and women who have made this world a kinder place to live."
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"Treaties of peace, made after war, are entrusted to individuals to negotiate and carry out."
-Richard Cobden
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"I therefore declare, that if you wish any remission of the taxation which falls upon the homes of the people of England and Wales, you can only find it by reducing the great military establishments, and diminishing the money paid to fighting men in time of peace."
-Richard Cobden
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